Syme

"The whole literature of the past will be gone. We're cutting the language down to the bone."

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

"Each year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."

"How could you make a speech condemning Goldstein if you had never heard of him until this moment?"

"The whole aim of Newspeak is to make thoughtcrime literally impossible."

"Ingsoc, the principles of which are set out in the Book, really means doing the opposite of what it says."

"Language serves only to express complex thoughts as simple absolutes."

"The alphabet will be reduced until thought becomes impossible."

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it."

"We are destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them every day."

"Reality control is not merely the destruction of grammar; it is the destruction of meaning itself."

"The proles are not going to revolt, they will never become conscious, because they cannot be allowed to see newspapers or listen to radio or travel."

"The past is whatever the Party says it is. It is because they control all records, and they control all memories."

"Language is power. By controlling words, we control thought."

"It is our custom to destroy documents at regular intervals to make sure a general loss of memory throughout the Party."

"By means of Newspeak, the greatest difficulty for the Party would be doing things without thinking."

"The revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

"You begin to see, comrade, the beauty of the creation of Newspeak."

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime impossible because there will be no words in which to express it."

"The beautiful thing about destroying words is that you leave behind only a vacuous space."

"By destroying words we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible."

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime impossible because there will be no words in which to express it."

"The past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."

"The Party controls all records, and we control the past."

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

"Humanity is holding a rifle in one hand and an olive branch in the other."

"The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality."

"In the old days, you had to live for the future. But we have abolished the future."

"In the end we will make thoughtcrime impossible because there will be no words."

"The Party forces its members to be stupider than they are."